Tell Your Friends...

Hey everyone! Yes, we're still alive! The post-production on Land of Entrapment is taking far longer than anyone expected (or wanted!), but there is finally light at the end of the tunnel! We're making good progress on the foley and music recording stuff that has been holding us up. We've got a firm deadline in mid-November for getting everyting to our final sound mastering guy, and as soon as he's finished we'll be ready to put the movie on DVD and have our long-postponed premiere!

In other news, I've put together a trailer for LOE! The reason that we haven't had one until now is that, basically, I couldn't think of what a trailer for this movie should be. I mean, for an action movie the trailer would be easy: show some people shooting at each other, an explosion or two, throw in some kickass music, and blam, you're done. But, I just couldn't envision for myself what an LOE trailer would look like. So I outsourced it to a couple friends (who shall remain nameless, *ahem*), who have been busy with other things and haven't gotten around to it.

Then, on Monday, I woke up with the concept for this trailer running through my mind. It just kinda came to me all at once. Not every detail, mind you, but the basic structure of it and the desire to make it happen. So, my project for the last couple of days has been putting it together. This is the first movie trailer I've ever edited together, so constructive criticism would be appreciated! I know Adam will hate it, because it sounds horrible, but honestly I'd rather have a trailer that sounds bad than no trailer with fantastic sound. The only purpose of it is to get people interested in seeing the movie, and I hope it succeeds at least a little.

We're also planning a complete redesign of the website soon. One of the reasons it's been left a little barren lately is that the back end is all screwed up, and the webmaster we had who put it together hasn't had the time to fix it. So, we're just going to completely revamp it... be looking for that soon!

I'm also hoping to get together a meeting during October to start talking about our next couple of projects. The next feature I want to do is pretty ambitious, but I think it's within the realm of feasibility. It's going to be a big step up for us both technologically and logistically, but I think we can do it. I know we all learned a lot working on LOE and other projects. For awhile, I was thinking of doing another slacker comedy on about the same scale, to verify that we knew what we're doing. But then I thought, why spend all the time and energy on making a feature unless it's one we can all be really passionate about? Besides, what's no-budget filmmaking without some insurmountable obstacles?

Until then, the main thing is to tell all your friends about this trailer! And get everyone you know to add 505films to their Myspace friends list. We've only got like 36 friends here, and that's not right at all. Over 100 people worked on the movie, if you count all the background talent! It's time to start getting the word out about LOE, because finally, the long-postponed premiere is approaching!